Chapter 164: Saierliya Palace

"Red Thorn Hotel"

Yun Mu read the hotel name on the doorplate in her heart.

Hehehe, Brenna and I are getting a room at a hotel. Looking at the Frost Kingdom language written on the building's doorplate in front of them, she went crazy in her heart.

Of course, she wouldn't feel excited just because she was getting a room in the same hotel as Brenna.

It was just that before transmigrating, as a person living in the modern era who often surfed the internet for fun, sometimes, some abstract remarks would inevitably emerge in her heart.

Just like now.

Shaking her head, Yun Mu deleted the strange thoughts in her mind.

She looked at Brenna and asked with some curiosity: "Are we staying here tonight?"

"That's right," Brenna nodded and said.

"I don't want to go to Saierliya Palace and be surrounded by a group of people asking me this and that."

Pausing, she said with a look of great headache: "Just thinking about that scene makes me feel like I'm suffocating."

Brenna was clearly using a slightly exaggerated way to describe her mood.

And seeing her like this, Yun Mu thought of the time before she transmigrated, when her parents were still around.

Every Lunar New Year, she would be surrounded by various relatives asking all kinds of questions.

Things like whether she had a partner, or when she was considering marriage—these questions would at most make her feel a little annoyed, but they didn't count as much of a headache.

What was truly Torment was the questions asking about her work.

How could she possibly say out loud that she was a doujin artist who drew lewd content online and incidentally made half-finished games to feed fans empty promises! So whenever she encountered such questions, she could only muddle through vaguely, saying she was an artist who took commissions online.

As for income?

Just make up a number that sounded about right.

However, even if the income was decent, she still had to be interrogated by her relatives in turns.

Things like how it was bad to always stay at home, and that young people should go out to gain experience.

Not to earn money, but just to exercise the ability to conduct oneself in society... Ugh, she couldn't think about it anymore.

She was already suffocating.

Following Brenna into the Red Thorn Hotel, Yun Mu temporarily emptied her brain, letting herself stop focusing on those trivial matters in her memory.

She looked around, observing the environment inside the Red Thorn Hotel.

Not bad; the space in the lobby was spacious, the layout was simple yet not lacking in magnificence, mainly decorated with warm-toned wood, paired with the warm Wind that rushed toward her face after entering the house.

It made Yun Mu, who had just walked into the hotel from the cold outdoors, immediately feel warm all over.

"Book a room."

Brenna walked to the front desk and said to the male attendant sitting behind it.

"Shh, don't make a scene." Noticing that the other party seemed to recognize her, she immediately signaled for him to be quiet.

"Don't tell anyone I've been here," Brenna said after the other party finished processing the room.

"Mm." The male attendant nodded, looking a bit nervous.

"Very good."

Brenna placed 5 Gold Frost Coins on the counter, then led Yun Mu into the elevator in the center of the Red Thorn Hotel lobby and pressed the button for the fourth floor.

Has the Royal Capital actually popularized elevators? Although she knew this thing was likely not powered by electricity, Yun Mu still thought so in her heart.

"It's your first time riding an elevator, it feels very novel, right?" Brenna mistook her expression for something else and said.

"It is quite novel." Seeing this, Yun Mu didn't have the intention to explain and said insincerely.

Ding! The elevator—ah, no, the lift—quickly sent the two to the fourth floor of the Red Thorn Hotel and emitted a crisp prompt sound.

Following the Access Card that the male attendant in the lobby had handed to Brenna, the two soon found their room.

"412, this is it."

Brenna inserted the Access Card into a slot next to the room door, and soon, the door to room 412 automatically slid to the side.

"Not bad," Yun Mu said, following behind Brenna into the room.

"This is one of the best hotels in Winter City; many cheating nobles choose this hotel when having affairs with their lovers."

"And their security is very good. As long as you are careful, you basically won't be secretly photographed by paparazzi."

Brenna sat gently on the edge of the large bed in the room and said.

Having an affair with a lover? Yun Mu noticed the key information and immediately raised her eyebrows.

"What kind of rude things are you thinking about?" Brenna noticed her expression, her face turned red, and she said: "I chose this place only because it has a good reputation and won't leak the news that I'm staying here; it's absolutely not the reason you're thinking of..."

"Cough, cough." Realizing she had lost her composure, Brenna gave a light cough and continued to explain: "Only booking one room is just to prevent accidents and save money..."

"A regular room costs 5 Gold Frost Coins a night... my money..." she said with a heartbroken expression.

"By the way." Yun Mu suddenly thought of something else at this moment; she looked at Brenna and asked: "Is that painting of the Mechanical Heart I made still in effect?"

"It expired ten hours after you fell asleep." Hearing her words, Brenna replied.

"Can it only be in effect for ten hours?" Yun Mu said with some regret.

Looking at it this way, there was no need to think about using her painting to replace Elena's heart anymore.

"It doesn't matter, I had expected this," Brenna said with a calm face.

"Except for the founder of the 【Artist】 series, that Legendary painter, Tangjiked, I haven't heard of any artist whose paintings can be permanently effective."

"Wait, who?" Yun Mu asked, doubting she had heard correctly.

"The founder of the Supernatural profession 【Artist】 series, the Sixth Rank Legend, the Eerie Painter—Tangjiked," Brenna explained to Yun Mu again.

Tangjiked... Don Quixote... it should just be a coincidence.

Yun Mu thought to herself.

"Mm-hmm~"

"It's about time, get some rest early."

Brenna stretched lazily, looking somewhat exhausted; she hadn't slept last night, having spent the whole time studying blueprints.

Along the way, she had even encountered that God of Decay and Necromancy, Fen Yege.

Today, she had been jolted about on the Steam Train for an entire day, so even as a Third-tier Expert, she was feeling a bit tired.

"Tomorrow morning, I still have to meet with Bishop Muse at the Winter Cathedral; I hope everything goes smoothly," she said, lying on the hotel room bed and pulling the quilt over herself.

"Rest?"

"At this hour?"

Yun Mu was first a little surprised, then immediately realized what was happening.

It was already nearly eight o'clock at night!

But she had only just woken up not long ago! Was she going to have to pull an all-nighter for Painting again, only to end up mentally drained tomorrow due to excessive consumption of Spirituality, thereby falling into a vicious cycle of a disrupted biological clock?

Just as Yun Mu was caught in the dilemma of whether to pull an all-nighter or not, Brenna suddenly reached out a hand toward her and said, "Come here."

"W-what are you doing?" Hearing her words, Yun Mu suddenly became a little nervous.

PS: Phew, finally finished writing, I'm exhausted.

Hehehe, Princess Brenna is so cute after you get familiar with her.

Her various reactions and such, prprprp, she's a bit of a tsundere, but not quite a tsundere, does anyone get it?

——Almost forgot.

Tangjiked is actually a mix of the IDs of two fellow members from the editor and writer group I'm in.

One is Tang Ke, the other is Derrick; actually, I wanted to add "chicken leg" (ji tui) too, but I felt Tangjiked didn't look good.

So I didn't add it in.

Hehehe, I'll take a screenshot later to tease the group members.

(End of chapter)